Federal officials have a favorite refrain about COVID-19: "We have the tools." There's just one problem: As those who have worked to end HIV for decades know, just having the tools is not enough.

As we enter the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is turning to contact tracing. States and cities are gearing up to hire thousands of people to help identify and notify those who may ...

The HIV and AIDS crisis in Africa was—and still is—devastating for the continent’s population. Despite only making up 6.2% of the world’s population, Eastern and Southern Africa is home to 54% of all ...

In 2020, global health has gone from a fringe issue to the forefront of people’s mind, all thanks to COVID-19. The last time the entire world came close to being as focused on a pandemic threat was ...

After launching a PrEP medication that was 100% effective in clinical trials, the company is facing a complex global rollout ...

—The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest provider of care to patients infected with HIV in the U.S. and is at the forefront of preventing the disease at the national, regional, and ...

But a new commentary by two leading HIV experts at Johns Hopkins argues that despite its disappointing outcome, the Mississippi case and two other recent HIV "rebounds" in adults, have yielded ...

$7.5 million to Battle HIV/AIDS in the United States Earlier this month, President Barack Obama set out a new domestic AIDS policy, which asked cities, states, federal agencies, and the private sector ...

Infectious disease expert Dave Wessner reports from the 24 th International AIDS Conference, where researchers shared ways that Covid vaccine development might help the development of a vaccine for ...

You have to be careful when comparing HIV and COVID-19 because the speed and scale of our response has been, undoubtedly, different. But there are key lessons from the way we have tackled HIV, ...

While HIV transmission has been significantly reduced over the past decades — especially among people who inject drugs, who now represent less than 10 percent of new HIV diagnoses per year — the ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. From a mostly quiet hospital, Karen Joynt-Maddox, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine ...